I’m the guy who has a binder or two of cards I collected as a kid, but I also have a lot of football, and even some hockey cards. It would be fun to find that binder and look through to see who made it and who didn’t.

I don’t really collect any more, sometimes I’ll buy a pack or two on a whim, or maybe a Diamondbacks set if I like the design, but I was never very serious about it. My favorite card was definately the Dick Trickle card that came packed in a Happy Meal once, so obviously I was never in it to get the super sweet cards.

To be honest I’ve never pulled anything that was particularly awesome; I’m fairly certain I have no autographs, probably only one or two jersey cards, and more likely than not, no limited run stuff.

when i was a kid, basketball and baseball. don’t know what happened to all of my prized jordan’s or countless shawn kemp cards (kemp was my favorite player, always…), but i still have all of the old donruss and whatnot.

for the past few years, i have been buying just a few packs of topps here and there, nothing major, until i discovered the topps heritage this year and have been buying packs like a madman. i’m trying to get the whole collection the hard way and it has been so much fun. not sure i have anything too special yet, but then again, i don’t know shit about the cards outside of liking how they look and leaping for joy when i get a diamondback that doesn’t suck (see: chris young’s 2008 topps series 1 – shaking hands?! really)

1953 Topps – from nice oil paintings and cheaper than ‘52

1955 & 1956 Topps – attractive artwork and I prefer the landscape orientation. My favorites may be the Clemente cards where he’s called “Roberto”. He wouldnt be called Roberto again until 1970. Just “Bob”. But all these 55-56 cards are pretty, IMO

1961 Fleer – All Time Greats series. You can get a Ruth, Cobb or Wagner for less, in better condition, than some of the older series (Goudey,T206,etc). Hell, this series will be fifty years old before you know it, Also like the borders – crisp white with vertical blue stars and horizontal red stripes

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The only cards I ever collected were Yu-Gi-Oh. Before you laugh at the mention of Yu-Gi-Oh, I was ranked as high as 11th in the state of Arizona in 2002. I went to regionals three times. Before I stopped playing and sold my Yu-Gi-Oh Collection, I owned three copies of the then extremely rare Needle Worm… A card that regularly sold for about 80 bucks, and was found in about 1 in 100 packs. And not the normal every day booster packs you buy at walmart… these were found in Tournament Packs, and you only got one pack every time you entered an official sanctioned tournament… Of course, the Diamondbacks quickly replaced Yu-gi-oh in my interests.. and the rest is history.

I was always much more into collecting comic books more than anything. If you know me well, you’ll know that I’m a HUGE fan of Spider-Man and most of the Marvel Characters. I have a vast amount of knowledge that I’ve amassed over the years that consist largely of pointless comic book trivia. The most valuable comic book that I’ve owned is either the first appearance of spider-man’s black costume(Secret Wars #8) , my mint condition copy of the Death of Gwen Stacy(Amazing Spider-man #121), or the first appearance of wolverine(Incredible Hulk #181).

I don’t really collect comic books any more though. I had my collection stolen when I lived in Phoenix. Since then I almost never buy single issue comics. Most of the time I just read them in the store. If it’s an extremely good issue, I’ll pick it up. Or I just wait until a storyline is collected in Trade Paper back or a graphic novel. This is a lot more common of a practice these days, as finding a good comic book shop can be difficult, and most book stores have a limited comic book rack(borders) or don’t carry any at all(barnes and noble)

Anyway, I never really understood the appeal of collecting baseball cards. I understand that they can end up being worth a good deal of money down the road… but where’s the fun when they aren’t worth anything yet? With Magic:The Gathering or Yu-gi-oh you can at least play games with them. With comic books, the fun is reading them. I don’t really see where the fun is with baseball cards. Maybe some one can explain this to me.

Naturally, we never has baseball card growing up in Britain. We did have football [soccer] cards, which were basically the same thing: picture on the front, stats on the back, and collected, traded and gambled with in games of skill and chance by kids. I don’t think they quite occupy the same exalted location in pop culture: current residents may be able to correct me, but I don’t know of any adults who actively collect them, or stores devoted to selling things like, say, the rare 1973 Andy Gray rookie card.

I don’t really “collect” anything much. I used to buy a lot of comics, but basically stopped dead when I moved out to America. There are still several boxes in the closet that haven’t even beem opened. I was never big into Marvel or DC: had a lot of manga and indie titles – with the odd exception such as the first fifty issues of Hellblazer, which must be worth something now, even though the movie sucked.

Outside of that, we have a lot of film memorabilia, including a bunch of movie posters, that we rotate as and when. Our favorite is probably the Blade Runner one signed by Rutger Hauer. We basically just get stuff that we think is “cool”: whether its valuable or collectible is very much secondary, regardless of whether it’s baseball-related or not.

Ultimate Spider-Man is consistently a good read.They’ve made some whole changes from the 616 universe, but it’s a nice refreshing read. The Ultimate Spider-Man annual coming out this year is going to deal with Peter and Mary-Janes physical relationship. That’s something that I think that’s never been done.

All though it’s not part of the Ultimate Universe… Spider-Girl is a great, underrated comic. It’s almost always a good read.

I’m a big fan of the now defunct Cable/Deadpool series. Thank god the merc with a mouth is getting his own book at the end of the year.

Alvaro’s Comicboards is great. They have a message board dedicated to most of the popular characters.

Penny Arcade’s Graphic Violence forum is another cool message board to check out.

Spiderfan.org is another cool website. It used to be dedicated to just Spider-man, but now they review other comics and super-hero related stuff.

Newsarama.com is another classic site. They break a lot of news, and the